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Post by lighthawk on Sept 28, 2007 11:37:49 GMT -5
Amber was crawling through one of the student parking lots, careless of her bared knees on the pavement. Blood soaked her blue and white cheerleader outfit, but she barely noticed it, couldn't bring herself to notice it. It was her friend's blood, blood that had splattered when...she stopped that line of thought. She was trying to find whichever car the set of keys she had dug out a dropped purse belonged to, frantically pushing the lock remote, hoping to hear a door click announcing she had found, there! She jumped up, racing to the car, a small, red POS, but it was a car, it was an escape, it was...a stick shift! Amber felt she could cry, she didn't know how to work a stick. She looked around wildly, hoping...wait, was that? " Dr. Norton!" she half cried, half shouted to the professor.
Thomas didn't seem to hear Mr. Thurmstrom, he was too busy yelling. " Amy! Keys!" " I'm coming!" A short girl yelled back, brown hair flying out behind her as she ran up with a set of keys and locked the doors. " That's all of them," she told them. " Good, lets just hope it holds," Thomas said. " f**k man, what the hell if going on?"
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Post by ev1lpoptart on Sept 28, 2007 12:36:03 GMT -5
"As good a question as any," Dexter spat as he tried dialing Mandy's number again. No luck. "f**k!" He slammed his fist into the side of the wall. He slid down the wall until he was sitting against it, holding is head in his bloody hands.
Alexa watched it all, and knew who he was trying to call. A few tears rolled off her cheeks. "Dex, it's alright. I'm sure she's fine," she said with an occasional sob.
"I have to know," he replied. She sat down next to him and hugged him tightly.
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Post by lighthawk on Sept 28, 2007 12:43:58 GMT -5
" Come on man," Thomas said, taking a quick look out the tall, narrow window by the door. " We should get deeper inside. Maybe if those things don't see anyone in here, they won't try to get in."
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Post by ev1lpoptart on Sept 30, 2007 0:43:08 GMT -5
"Okay, yeah." Dexter said. He stood up from the wall, tried calling Mandy again(to no avail), and walked away from the hallway, following the others.
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Post by Caelen on Sept 30, 2007 19:35:57 GMT -5
Dr. Norton and Rachel stopped their trek through the parking lot just long enough for them to see who had just shouted. "Amber? Is that you?" Dr. Norton said, looking at the girl by an old beater car. "Come over here quick! We're heading for the..." she was cut off by a scream from Rachel. A couple zombies had come around from behind another car and were heading right for them. Rachel bolted, and Dr. Norton ran towards Amber to help her along the way. Luckily for Dr. Norton and Amber, the zombies both went after Rachel. A few minutes later a series of screams from Rachel echoed out over the lot, just as Dr. Norton was closing on the dorm. _______________________________
Mr. Thursmstrom followed the group deeper into the dorm. Not sure what to do, he decided to let others take charge of the situation. He was just glad that the students generally liked him or he might not have gotten into the building the first place. "So... um... what's to stop them from getting through the windows?"
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Post by ev1lpoptart on Sept 30, 2007 21:07:10 GMT -5
"Nothing," Dexter replied. "That's why we've got to get to a dorm on one of the higher levels, block all access to that level, and start stockpiling food and water."
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Post by lighthawk on Oct 1, 2007 8:36:29 GMT -5
It happened as they passed by the door leading to the basement. With a yell, Marty burst out of the darkness, his own intestines trailing around his legs. He seized Amy, lifting her, teeth sinking into her shoulder as she screamed. She kicked and flailed and shoved, and Marty tripped over his guts, pulling her down with him, both falling down the stairs. The dorm keys in Amy's hand flashed just before they vanished out of sight. A second later, Abe and Phil came rushing up from the basement, bleeding holes in both of their necks.
Amber was in a daze, and as such, she was halfway along with Dr. Norton before she even remembered why she had been in the parking lot to begin with. " Wait! We have to go back, Dr. Norton, I have the keys to that car! But it's a stick, can you drive a stick? Oh god, please say you can, we can get out of here!"
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Post by ev1lpoptart on Oct 1, 2007 19:14:20 GMT -5
"Jesus f**king Chirst almighty!" Dexter grabbed Alexa's arm and began running in the opposite direction of the calamity ahead of them. Dexter rounded a corner and stopped, grabbing a fire extinguisher. He threw it through a window, shattering it. "Go, f**king go!" He practically pushed Alexa through the window before diving through it himself.
Outside again, Dexter immediately tried calling Mandy. No answer. "f**king sh**!" Dexter was running out of ideas.
Alexa was in state bordering on full blown panic. She was looking around the area outside of Dexter's dorm room. "None of these buildings are safe, d**n it!" She yelled. Her voice echoed off of the walls, attracting the attention of a couple of crazies from across the quad. "sh**, Alexa. We have to run. NOW!" The two of them took off, no destination in mind...
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Post by lighthawk on Oct 2, 2007 8:49:40 GMT -5
Aaron paced the edge of the rooftop, watching the chaos below. There weren't many normal people left, not out in the open. The zombies, he still could barely make himself accept that but after seeing some of their victims rise up out of pools of their own blood to begin shambling about he really couldn't deny it, the zombies were in control of the streets, gathered in a handful of growing groups. He stopped dead in his tracks when he caught sight of Dexter and Alexa, running through the streets. He quickly dug out his phone and hit the speed dial for Dex. " Pick up man, pick up...."
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Post by ev1lpoptart on Oct 2, 2007 14:37:12 GMT -5
Dexter's phone rang. he tossed it to Alexa so that he could better navigate the campus. "Pick it up," he said.
Alexa looked at the number. it was Aaron. She hit the send button. "Hello?"
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Post by lighthawk on Oct 2, 2007 14:56:32 GMT -5
" Alexa, you and Dex are heading right for a large mob of them," Aaron said, only momentarily caught off guard by her answering the phone, then again, he couldn't see them at the moment, they were blocked by the library. " Head for the art building, me and Evan are on the roof." He waved frantically as the pair came out from behind the library, for the moment not caring if any of the creatures saw him. He doubted they could get up on the roof, and was willing to risk it anyway at the moment.
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Post by ev1lpoptart on Oct 2, 2007 22:56:47 GMT -5
Alexa pointed Aaron out to Dexter. "Go, f**king go!" he screamed. she jammed the phone into a pocket and took off. The two of them tore across the open area towards the art building. They got to an alleyway and saw a dumpster in the middle, and some of the crazies at the other end. The two of them jumped onto the dumpster and Dexter gave Alexa a boost up to the roof of the adjacent building. The crazies rushed towards the dumpster. "Dexter, HURRY!" Alexa screamed, holding out her hand. Dexter grabbed her hand and ran up the wall until he could use his other hand to grab the rooftop, and hoisted himself up. He then took a running start and jumped over to the roof of the art building, where Aaron and Evan were waiting. "Think you can make it?" He shouted across the alleyway.
Alexa took as much of a running start as she could get, and leaped across the opening latching onto the rooftop as her legs dangled into the alleyway. She lost a shoe. "OH f**k PULL ME UP!" she yelled. Dexter grabbed her hand and pulled with all his strength, helping his little sister onto the roof where the two of them lay, gasping for breath.
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Post by Caelen on Oct 3, 2007 0:45:21 GMT -5
Dr. Norton ran back and grabbed Amber. "Look" she said, pointing towards a column of smoke. "Do you see that? That's smoke from a gas fire. The road is most likely completely blocked off right now. The best thing to do is to get to somewhere where those things can't get us." She looked around trying to find if there was a better place to run to...or maybe somewhere closer. That's when she heard Alexa's yelling. Following the sound with her eyes, she saw people standing on the roof of the art building. "There!" She pointed to the people. "We can go meet up with them. A bigger group is more likely to get through in one piece. Ready for a run Amber?" Dr. Norton made sure her shoes were tied nice and tight, then started to run for the art building, urging Amber on at the same time.
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Mr. Thurmstrom ran after the kids as they left the dorm through the broken window. As they ran, he realized he could try to contact other teachers to see if they'd made it. He decided to wait for a rest first though. He wasn't the most coordinated person when running for his life. At the building, he vaulted up the same way that Dexter and Alexa had, then did a running jump to the art building after Alexa was up safely. He pulled out his phone and started calling as many other teachers as he could to see if there was anyone else alive. While a phone was ringing, he saw someone running towards the building from the parking lot. He pointed the person out to the group. "Hey, is that a normal person? I think it's Dr. Norton!"
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Post by lighthawk on Oct 3, 2007 8:49:58 GMT -5
Aaron scrambled over to Mr. Thurmstrom, looking where he was pointing. " No! Go back!" he shouted, glancing down at the zombies in the alley. Dr. Norton and some girl with her were about to come running to their deaths. " Go back! sh**!" They didn't seem to hear him. He looked back down, seeing the creatures below, staring up at him, jumping and scratching at the wall. " Don't take stupid risks..." he whispered to himself, something he had told everyone on the Parkour team at the start of every practice. He smiled weakly, he was about to break the only real rule he had ever enforced on the team. He looked over his shoulder at the people on the roof with him. " Stay here, and help Dr. Norton and the girl with her when they get here." He jumped, landing right on the edge of the lower building, his heels hanging over. He didn't even straighten back up, but hopped back, dropping over the edge. He hit the dumpster lid with a ringing bang, rolling to the side, onto the ground. There was another bang as the zombies hands slapped the dumpster, just missing him only for his roll. Aaron ran, away from where Dr. Norton was approaching, leading the zombies off. He could hear them, yelling as they came after him.
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Post by Caelen on Oct 3, 2007 11:40:39 GMT -5
Dr. Norton heard some of the yelling, but didn't understand what was said. "I think they see us!" she said to Amber. "We have to move fa... why did one of them jump down?" Dr. Norton slowed her pace momentarily, then her phone rang. Stopping only long enough to pull it out, she ran at full speed again while answering. Mr. Thurmstrom's voice came through. "Are you alright?" "Um...I suppose" Dr. Norton replied, more than a little shocked. "We're on the art building, but you'll have to use the dumpster near the first building of the art complex to get up. The others can help you up." "Okay. Got it." Dr. Norton continued to run for the building, going to the dumpster to get up top.
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